good morning everyone 🙏🏻✌🏽🖖
snow overnight. very cold this morning.
here's an internet archive link to
The Collective Unconscious and
Its Archetypes by
Philippe L. De Coster, D.D.
and here's #Teddy holding onto his bowl so the mealworms don't get away.
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"The concept of the archetype, which is an indispensable correlate to the idea of the collective unconscious, indicates the existence of definite forms in the psyche which seem to be present always and everywhere.
Mythological research calls them "motifs"; in the psychology of primitives they correspond to LevyBruhl's concept of "representations collectives,"
and in the field of comparative religion they have been defined by Hubert and Mauss as "categories of the imagination."
"The collective unconscious -- so far as we can say anything about it at all -appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents.
In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious.
if we look at the constellations, which original chaotic forms were organized through the projection of images. This explains the influence of the stars as asserted by astrologers."
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"when an archetype appears in a dream in its negative or most primitive guise, it can disrupt our sleep in terrifying nightmares.
Then we want to run and hide. We want to forget the dream as soon as we can, for it feels dangerous and threatening to our well-being.
We cannot prevent these contents from appearing in our dreams, nor can we domesticate them,
but we can diminish their power to interfere with our waking lives by paying attention to what they tell us about ourselves."
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"Accepting the fact that we contain the potential for vile and inhuman behaviour can be a humbling experience
that teaches us tolerance, compassion, and empathy;
when we know that the archetypal evil lives within ourselves,
we are far less apt to point an accusatory finger at someone else."
"An Archetype is an inner guide, which presents us with the deep structure for our experience, motivation and meaning. "
they serve to project gestalts, constellations of meaning that form our lived experience.
"They aid us on our own unique life’s journey or pilgrimage. They help us to discover our personal motivations and what gives our lives, brands and business their unique meaning.
They invoke a variety of responses that decide how we think and act."
"There are individual and universal archetypes. You become aware of them in meditation, dreamtime, remote viewing or other outof-body experiences,
when you doodle on a pad, crop circles or landscape art, other art forms, jewellery, hieroglyphs, a logo, on a billboard, anywhere at all.
Archetypes can also be auditory, a tone, a series of notes, a harmonic. Reality is a series of metaphors set into motion by the synchronicity of archetypes we experience."
had auditory experiences like that.
@holon42 I want that patch, and maybe some shoulders to pin it on.
"These influences are nothing but unconscious, introspective perceptions of the activity of the collective unconscious. Just as the constellations were projected into the heavens, similar figures were projected into legends and fairy tales or upon historical persons."